The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-10-12

Work will be resumed on the Adrian,
gas well. The $1,000 loan asked for has,
been raised.
The Jackson gas well has $50 feet more
to go before the $4,000 fund is exhausted
1t is down 2.15O feet
The casting at the Jackson gas we'll is
all down and the drilling for gas has re-
sumed its downward course.
The lumber yards at Baraga and Pc
quaming are overcrowded, owing to the
Lack Of transportation facilities.
There were 764 convicts in Jackson
prison Sept. l. Twenty were received and
twenty four discharged, leaving 100 there
at present.
"A syndicate which proposes TO CONSOLE
date fourteen Upper Peninsula and adjacent
mines for feeding Eastern furnaces, has
sent Charles E Coon to Europe to place
81, O0O,0 600 of their bonds.
Reports to the State Bsard of Health
show the presence of diphtheria at twenty
five places in the State, scarlet fever at
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places, measles at three places, and small
pox at Detroit.
Formers will not trade with Quincy
merchants who do not take the trouble to
furnish hitching- posts in front of their
phees Of business. Consequently, when
visiting Quincy you will understand why
there are SO many hitching posts on the
business streets.
Mr.. Lancaster, of Traverse City, met
with painful accident which WIZ probably
cripple him as long as he lives, He started
out for S. d. Northam's camp with the sup
ply team. The team ran away and Mr..
Lancaster was thrown out with such vio-
lence as to break the hip joint socket.
Notwithstanding the belief held by
reputable biologists that the land around
Ontonagon is devoid of natural gas, the
make investigation, no matter what the
cost, and preparations are already being
made for sinking we'll in the suburbs.
One of the ministers of the gospel in
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tired of providing for the spiritual wants of
his congregation and will discard his cler-
ical garb for the business suit of ph; ISL
clan. In palmer English, he will quit
preaching and 90 to praeticing-medicine
Colonel A. T. Bliss and ex- Governor
II. A. Alger have just concluded a sale to
Bay City and Detroit parties of pine lands
in town 40 north, ranges IL and II west,
Upper Peninsula, estimated to cut so, 000,-
600 feet, two-thirds white pine and one
third Norway, for S160,Oe0 They paid
$50, 900 for the land less than two years
ago.
The Jackson Building and Loan As
ISOLATION makes good report for the first
half of its fifth year. The earnings were
S2.Sl share; the receipts were $14, 1870,
of which $40. 633. go was for dues, SO, S07. 30
for interest, and S34.7O for fines and trans
fers. The number of shares paid off was
113, making O total of 900, and fifteen
we're redeemed.
"A ripple of excitement occurred at the
Rouech House shortly after supper at Bay
City recently. 1t seems six towels belong
ing to the hotel were found in the valise
of guest named Luckstone, who, upon
being charged with the larceny, denied
having them. He was gathered into the
police station until an explanation could be
made. At the cooler Luckstone's room
mate said he had taken the towels just for
joke and placed them in Luckstones
sachel.
-Mosher & Fishers logs, which went
ashore on White Fish Point in that terrible
gale when the barge Niagara went down,
are practically safe. Those afoat have
been picked up, and some of those
piled on the shore will have to be drayed to
the waters edge and put aaoat. In some
places these logs were piled up on the
shore until they resembled immense skid
ways. The logs will be saved, but the ex-
pense of saving them will be considerable.
S. H. Evans, wife, son and daughter,
who live two miles from Milan, drank free
ly of milk which had been kept in cold,
musty cellar, at meal recently, and were
taken violently i'll. The local doctor was
summoned in great haste, and made dag
nosis of milk poisoning, and sent for DR..
Vaughan, of the university who discovered
the poison developed under certain condi-
tons in milk, cheese, and oysters, and
named tyrotoxicon. He found them in a
critical condition. The son has since died.
Pensions: Minor of Alfred A. Irish,
Newaygo; Mary, mother of William Lock-
ard, Union City; Nancy Van Wicklin,
former widow of Robert Mcneil, Mid
land; Henry Colney, Grand Rapids; La
ban A. Howard. Litchfeld; George w.
Corrick, Cheboygan; Joseph w. Bund,
East Saginaw; Lycurgus NJ. Poak, Battle
Creek; Michael Nagel, Coldwater; Egbert
Webb, Monroe; Martin Otis. Dansville;
Chester Ashley, Port Huron; Henry Man
well, Saginaw; jeremiah Puterbaugh,
Pipestone John p. Schoeni, Hubbards-